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Acquisitions, partnerships, new markets and the moves of software vendors through agencies, explained in three minutes.
Deals · Nov 4, 2026 · 1 min read
Revenue matters, but buyers of agencies look first at how much of the business depends on the founder, how recurring the revenue is and how concentrated the clients are.
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Software · Nov 4, 2026
Shopify's third quarter brought $119.1 billion in GMV. Under the partner model in force since 10 August, agencies earn 0.1% of their new merchants' online sales for four years, plus subscription and payments shares.
Markets · Nov 3, 2026
Fewer agencies than Madrid alone, but a third of Singapore's agencies and almost half of Hong Kong's already sell AI and ERP/CRM integrations.
Deals · Nov 3, 2026
Publicis has completed its acquisition of LiveRamp, the identity and data platform its rival holding groups rely on, under five-year FTC commitments that keep it open to competitors.
Agencies · Nov 2, 2026
Catalonia has more agencies and more of them are small; Madrid has twice the share of agencies above 50 people. They also implement different software and serve different sectors.
Agencies · Nov 2, 2026
WPP returned to slight revenue growth in the third quarter, but net revenue fell 2.1%. Production grew while creative shrank, a signal of where AI is moving marketing budgets.
Software · Oct 30, 2026
In Spain, three in four Odoo agencies also build online shops. In Mexico, almost all of them are ERP consultancies, and only one in five does eCommerce.
Software · Oct 29, 2026
Partner recruitment fails when it starts with a portal and a commission table. It works when it starts with a map of who already sells next to your product.
Software · Oct 29, 2026
The PIM vendor has acquired Dataggo, one of its own enterprise integration partners, alongside a release built around governed AI agents and a two-tier Shopify connector.
Deals · Oct 28, 2026
Of the Spanish agencies with a known team size, 70% have ten people or fewer and only 241 have more than 50. That is the shape of a market built for consolidation.
Markets · Oct 28, 2026
Up to 325,000 digital agencies in 64 countries of Europe, the Americas and Asia, led by the United States, China, Brazil and the United Kingdom.
Markets · Oct 28, 2026
Mexico City, Jalisco and Nuevo León lead. Next to Shopify and WordPress, Mexican agencies implement Odoo, SAP, Aspel and CONTPAQi, and sell on Mercado Libre.
Software · Oct 28, 2026
Most eCommerce agencies in Spain work with more than one platform. Half of the Shopify agencies also build on WooCommerce, and six in ten PrestaShop agencies do too.
Markets · Oct 28, 2026
Seven in ten are teams of ten people or fewer, Catalonia and Madrid hold almost half of them, and food, health and education are the sectors they work for most.
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